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Malignant Self Love: Narcissim Revisited

Author: Sam Vaknin
Publication info: Narcissus Publications, Czech Republic (1999)
ISBN: 8023833847

A detailed, first hand account of what it is like to have a narcissistic personality disorder. It offers new insights and an organized methodological framework using a new psychodynamic language. Narcissism is a slippery subject: only with great difficulty can it be captured with words. A new vocabulary had to be invented to account for the myriad of facets and appearances - false and true - of this condition.

Katherine Theriault, Inscriptions Magazine, Vol. 2, Issue 20 "...This book has an important purpose. I am sure it will be appreciated in a library,classroom or among the mental health profession."

A.M. Benis, Sc.D., M.D., Mount Sinai Hospital, New-York, Author of Towards Self and Sanity - On the Genetic Origins of the Human Character "The strength of this book comes from the author's vantage point: he is a Narcissist (with a capital N). He is an 'insider,' who discovered that he has the unbridled trait of narcissism and that this was the source of many of the difficulties in his professional and personal life. So we shall say at the outset that if you wish to get under the skin of a Narcissist (we shall call him the 'N type'), if you wish to get to know how he thinks and feels and why he behaves as he does, then this is the book for you. Of particular interest is Dr. Vaknin's description of one type of symbiotic relationship between and N type and a submissive type (his particular 'danse macabre') in which the Narcissist's partner is tolerant of the abuse that he receives to the point of 'masochism.' This symbiotic relationship is somewhat reminiscent of Karen Horney's 'morbid dependency' between an aggressive type and a submissive type."

Suggested by a member of SANE's Service User Group.

Added : 10 December 2007

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